Chapter 3: Gillian
Gillian stepped behind a tree and merged herself deeper in darkness, just in time before Evra left the tent followed by the boy.
The vampires student did in fact stay and had been listening at the tent of the Snake Boy.
She had hoped the boy would say something to Evra, which could explain why he was here.
But she heard nothing, what she didn`t knew.
What is the boy doing here? Why is Larten Crepsley accepting him as his assistant?
Gillian felt her tears in her eyes.
She wrapped her arms around her slender waist, because she shivered suddenly in the warm June night.
With burning eyes, she watched the Snake Boy and the young assistant, and heard the faint laughter of the two fading in the summer breeze.
When Master Larten decided to choose someone as his assistant, without having selected him long and carefully before - and he had not, because Gillian would knew - he could have done it for only two reasons: Either Master Crepsley had pity the boy, and wanted to protect him from a terrible fate; or the boy had impressed Master Crepsley with something.
Both couldn`t be true.
The boy was not a freak, he had nothing odd about him, and obviously he has no bad fate. On the contrary, the boy was smart, handsome, and apparently came from a solid American family.
He was more like a rolemodel for NORMALITY.
He has nothing to do in the Cirque.
And the second possibility, that Darren impressed with the vampire with something... that was really ridiculous.
Or was Gillian wrong about this?
Does the boy something about him?
A hidden talent?
He seemed to her neither particularly courageous nor very literate, nor to have any character ability that would have awake the attention of her master. And yet ... and yet the boy is here.
Why?
How will her master hide the fact that he was a vampire, if the boy will be around him all the time?
Or does he knew it already?
And what about her?
Kristina Teeth came joking with Rhamus Twobellies past some tents and Gillian pulled up her softly rustling dress and disappeared behind a trailer before the two noticed her.
A large fire had been lit, and in the glow of the dancing flames people where circling a bottle. But Gillian was in no mood to join in this, she remained hidden in the shadows and the darkness was wrapped around her like a veil.
Lost in thoughts and with bowed head, she made her way to her tent that, she was sharing with Kristina Teeth.
Whatever it was, what the boy had done.
Gillian would not allow a stupid teenager to take her position next to the side of the Vampire Larten Crepsley.
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